User talk:Proscribe

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Thank you for writing E. F. Gordon. I had the privilege of reading the article while reviewing articles that have not been added to categories. The guy is amazing, and I'm glad that I just learned about him. What would you think about renaming the article Edgar Gordon, otherwise I will create Edgar Gordon as a redirect if you have a reason not to move it there. I will also create redirects from Mazumbo and Edgar Fitzgerald Gordon. RyanVeseyReview me!

Thanks your comments, Ryan. I agree that the article may be better renamed, though perhaps it should be Edgar F. Gordon (the way he seems most often referred to), again with the redirect you suggest. What do you think? Proscribe (talk) 19:48, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

I've created User:Proscribe/BIM magazine which was your revision of the article. I'm not sure which title you're looking for, so you can move/cut& paste to the appropriate location/title. Skier Dude (talk) 05:15, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Bgwhite (talk) 22:49, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

BIM (magazine), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

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Hi Proscribe! Dthomsen8 and I are trying to get WikiProject Guyana going again. I've noticed that you've helped out on a number of Guyana-related articles. Any chance you might be interested in joining up? All best, Lorelei (talk) 10:12, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi there, Lorelei - thanks for asking. My knowledge of Guyana is general (Caribbean-related) rather than specialist, though of course I'll help where I can. Best Proscribe (talk) 04:06, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

That's brilliant, Proscribe - thank you so much! Any help would be hugely appreciated - and there's loads of articles that would benefit massively from a lookover by someone with some general knowledge and good editing skills :) If you feel like it (though obviously don't feel obliged) we'd love to see your name on the WikiProject Guyana participants list - as much as anything else because we're feeling pretty pathetic right now with only three members!! I've noticed also that you're great at giving articles-in-need (!) a good copyedit (I think our interests, particularly Caribbean literature, overlap so I've spotted your improvements to some of the articles I've got on my watchlist) so if you do ever have a bit of spare time, there's an up-to-date clean-up listing on the WikiProject page. All best, and thanks again, Lorelei (talk) 09:50, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

When a subject belongs in a more narrow category, they are not also added to the broader parent category or categories to which the narrow one belongs. Thus, we don't put "Chip" Delany into the category "African-American writers" because he is already in the daughter category "African-American science fiction writers", a subset of the broader parent categories "African-American writers" and "Science fiction writers". I appreciate your well-intentioned efforts, but now somebody has to tidy them up. --Orange Mike | Talk 21:55, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Please note: I have removed the children's names, yet again, per WP:BLPPRIVACY - they are not notable and should not be named. I have also changed the "Biography" heading to "Early life and education" - this is a standard heading for bio articles, as the whole article is a biography. Thanks.--ukexpat (talk) 15:09, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

The forcing of a fixed number of columns in reference lists has been deprecated in favor of specifying a column size. See template:Reflist#Columns for more on this. Geraldo Perez (talk) 15:54, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

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It is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article. The article will be reviewed to determine if there are any copyright issues.

If substantial content is duplicated and it is not public domain or available under a compatible license, it will be deleted. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. You may use such publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details. (If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure.) CorenSearchBot (talk) 11:34, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

I am happy to introduce you to the new WikiProject Ghana! The newly designed WikiProject features automatically updated work lists, article quality class predictions, and a feed that tracks discussions on the 3,474 talk pages tagged by the WikiProject. Our hope is that these new tools will help you as a Wikipedia editor interested in Ghana.